{"id":41302,"date":"2025-01-22T13:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/legal\/trademark-justice-for-aaron-judge\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:45:34","slug":"trademark-justice-for-aaron-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=41302","title":{"rendered":"Trademark Justice for Aaron Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">\u201c<strong>Here in right field, it\u2019s important you know.<br \/>You gotta know how to catch, you gotta know how to throw.\u201d<\/strong> \u201cRight Field,\u201d Music and lyrics by W. Welch<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thaworldtakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1430\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thaworldtakes.com\/2023\/04\/25\/trademark-justice-for-aaron-judge\/image-13\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/thaworldtakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" data-orig-size=\"232,217\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/thaworldtakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png?w=232\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/thaworldtakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png?w=232\" width=\"232\" height=\"217\" src=\"https:\/\/thaworldtakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png?w=232\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thaworldtakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 232w, https:\/\/thaworldtakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png?w=150 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Aaron Judge plays right field for the New York Yankees. Last season, he hit 62 home runs, the most ever by a Yankee. That\u2019s right. More than Maris. More than Ruth. More than Mantle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Tall, graceful, humble. Central casting could not have produced a more fitting figure than Judge to play the Yankees\u2019 latest superstar. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">You\u2019d think that nobody in their right mind would try to obtain federal trademark registrations for  slogans like \u201cHere Comes The Judge\u201d and \u201cAll Rise\u201d and then claim that they weren\u2019t trying to cash-in on Aaron Judge\u2019s fame. But that\u2019s exactly what one man tried to do. After filing applications to register those phrases <em>and <\/em>a logo showing a baseball-diamond with a gavel, applicant Michael P. Chisena defended himself by claiming that he cooked up these judicial themed trademarks years before Aaron Judge became a Yankee. Mr. Chisena also claimed that it was just a coincidence that he filed his trademark applications for \u201cHere Comes the Judge\u201d and \u201cAll Rise\u201d the same day that Aaron Judge wowed the sports world during the 2017 MLB All Star Game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Faced with an adversary who seemed intent on channeling the wily ethics of a spitballer, Mr. Judge and his union, the MLBPA had their hands full. Mr. Chisena tossed virtually every pitch one could dream up to put out Judge\u2019s case. Chisena claimed, for example, that <em>he, <\/em>not Aaron Judge, was the rightful owner of \u201cHere Comes The Judge\u2019 and \u201cAll Rise.\u201d Even though Chisena\u2019s trademark application claimed the intent to use those phrases as <em>trademarks <\/em>on clothing, he argued that they weren\u2019t trademarks when Judge and his licensees did just that. Chisena even argued that consumers wouldn\u2019t associate Aaron Judge with  baseball-themed clothing featuring those phrases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The \u201cump\u201d for the case was the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (\u201cTTAB\u201d) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Although Major League Baseball this season adopted a pitch-clock aimed at shortening games, the TTAB didn\u2019t get the message. It took 61 pages\u2013one short of Aaron Judge\u2019s Yankees home-run record of 62\u2013to make what was an easy call\u2013that Aaron Judge should be the one to own and register \u201cJudge-themed\u201d trademarks, not someone seeking to profit from the fame and marketing clout of this future Hall Of Famer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">So the jury no longer is out. Order has been restored. The final gavel has come down. And for once, Mudville (and all of baseball) can rejoice. The mighty case did not strike out.<\/p>\n<p>The case is <em>Major League Baseball Players Association and Aaron Judge v.Michael P. Chisena<\/em>. Opposition Nos. 91240180 (parent) 91242556, 91243244<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><strong>Quote of the day: <\/strong>\u201c\u201cYou may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat.\u201d<br \/>\u2015\u00a0<strong>Roger Kahn,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/531334\">The Boys of Summer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere in right field, it\u2019s important you know.You gotta know how to catch, you gotta know how to throw.\u201d \u201cRight Field,\u201d Music and lyrics by W. Welch Aaron Judge plays right field for the New York Yankees. Last season, he hit 62 home runs, the most ever by a Yankee. That\u2019s right. More than Maris. 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